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developed by the university students especially in answering questions in reading comprehension test successfully.
3.3 Participants
This study was conducted at STKIP Garut, one of Universities in Garut. The participants of this study were 76 first year students of English Education
Department who participated in the study upon the researcher’s giving information on the nature of the study. The students of English Education
Department were chosen as they were considered to have a potential to apply the strategies in their academic studies later as they are studying Reading III, Reading
IV and Extensive Reading Program the next years. The participants involved in this study had taken the subjects Reading I and Reading II offered in the
department, which mostly deal with skimming, scanning, and reading for comprehension the text by checking true-false statement.
There were 76 students chosen to fill in the questionnaire using simple random sampling. Therefore, everybody had the same chance to be the respondents
because “subjects are selected from the population so that all members of the population have the same probability of being chosen” McMillanSchumacher,
2001. However, only 15 students were involved in think-aloud component of the study. They were selected using purposive sampling in which the researcher
selected “particular elements from the population that would be representative or informative about the topic of interest” McMillanSchumacher, 2001. The
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fifteen students represented three categories as high achiever, middle achiever, and low achiever derived from five classes. The categorization of high achiever,
middle achiever and low achiever was derived from the students’ GPA scores in Reading I and Reading II program as well as by consulting to the academic staff.
3.4 Instruments
This section discusses the instruments used to collect the data. The data were taken from questionnaire and TAPs Thinking-aloud Protocols administered to
the respondents. Meanwhile, data taken from the adapted questionnaire of Yesim Ozek and Muharrem Civalek 2006 in their research entitled, “A Study on the
Use of Cognitive Reading Strategies by ELT Students” were used as comparison and support to the result of the study.
3.5 Method of Data Collection and Analysis
This section discusses the research procedures including how data were collected and how the data collected were analyzed.
3.5.1 Questionnaire
The questionnaire was used as one of instruments to collect the data. It was distributed to the respondents in order to collect information about their reading
strategies to enhance their reading comprehension in their daily reading activity in their academic setting. The questionnaire was administered to the respondents on
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